Digital Symposium Collection 2000

Multiple Dynamic View Support for Cooperative Work Yusuke Yokota, Tatsuya Nakamura, Hiroyuki Tarumi, and Yahiko Kambayashi   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Session 6B: Distributed Databases Abstract VIEW Media is a cooperative hypermedia system, which supports cooperative work utilizing hypermedia documents. It provides fundamental functions for cooperative work support system and enables developers to construct various groupware such as distributed presentation systems, education systems, conference systems, and so forth. This system provides a powerful and flexible mechanism of customization. The mechanism can alter presentation, structure, behavior and authority of hypermedia documents and workspace, which supports dynamic change of roles of users. This paper describes the purpose of VIEW Media, its basic model and implementation, and a user interface which supports conferences among users who have different access rights to shared documents. Copyright(C) 2000 ACM